After Molly shouted at Flynn, her eyes couldn’t help but moisten, and her voice choked up.
Friendship is a peculiar thing.
It only takes a moment of emotion to consider someone a friend for life.
For Molly, Rose and Scarlet were such people.
After the annihilation of the George family, she followed her master in the Alwood Mountains to study Martial Arts for fifteen years. She met six sisters and three brothers in apprenticeship, training rigorously together, bonding like siblings.
But everything changed three years ago when a brother died in a cliff fall while saving her.
Her fellow disciples stopped interacting with her, as if, apart from her master, the whole world hated her.
Coupled with Kendal’s repeated humiliations, Molly’s spirit plummeted, and she struggled to break through to the Grandmaster Realm.
This made Molly’s already cool demeanor grow even more solitary.
She became reticent, unwilling to speak more than necessary, and developed a sense of world-weariness.
Her master had no choice but to send her down the mountain to temper her spirit.
Molly arrived in Niarak and, by a twist of fate, started working at Orco Real Estate, living with Scarlet and becoming her bodyguard.
After helping her move yesterday, Scarlet considerately tidied up her room and invited her for a lavish meal.
Both of similar age and with Scarlet’s cheerful nature, they quickly became close friends, even sharing a bed last night, talking late into the evening.
One could say Scarlet, like a pistachio, warmed Molly’s cold nature.
One could also say that her smile yesterday surpassed those of the past three years combined.
And it could be said that Scarlet was the first friend she made since entering society.
Today, after meeting with Rose, Molly’s opinion of her changed as well.
She realized that Rose wasn’t just a cold, domineering CEO; she also had a girlish side.
Serious during work, she became just like them while shopping, enjoying jelly noodles, fried skewers, and cute things.
After all, they were all girls.
Now, with Scarlet and Rose suddenly abducted, Molly was frantic with worry.
Worried and blaming herself.
It felt as if the precious things she had just come to cherish were about to be lost again, leaving her almost in despair.
She didn’t know how the criminals were treating them; what if they were killed immediately after being taken and their bodies discarded in the wilderness?
Now, with Flynn scolding her, Molly’s emotions were completely overwhelmed.
Was fate so unfair, not allowing her to have friends and family?
Her family had been like this.
Her fellow disciples had been like this.
Would her friends end up the same?
Hearing the change in Molly’s voice, Flynn was momentarily stunned.
His throat bobbed a few times, and with a hint of apology, he said, “Don’t… don’t cry, it’s my fault, alright? I shouldn’t have scolded you. I apologize…”
He was at a loss for words.
Who would have thought that he, the King of the Underworld, would be apologizing to a twenty-year-old girl?
If those bosses who shrank at his sight knew, wouldn’t they be shocked?
If the brutes at Demon Island Prison knew, wouldn’t they laugh their heads off?
But what could he do?
If he didn’t calm Molly’s emotions, who knew what reckless thing she might do next?
Damn it!
The situation with Rose and Madeline was urgent enough, and now he had to placate Molly too!
“Hey! Say something, sister! This silence is making me anxious!” Flynn said somewhat helplessly.
What invincible force, wasn’t he ultimately defeated by women?
Rose was like this, and so was Molly.
It left him completely without temper.
After a few seconds, Molly’s voice came through the phone.
“I’m less than a hundred meters from that van, they seem to be speeding up, about to cross the intersection.”
Molly wiped her tears and sniffled, her mouth puckering in distress.
She was beginning to understand some of Flynn’s words.
“You can’t even defeat a Grandmaster, how can you avenge your family?”
Wasn’t this the perfect example?
If she could instantly defeat those two Semi-Grandmasters, could Rose and Scarlet have been abducted?
Merely acting on impulse couldn’t save people, nor could it dissolve the hatred in her heart.
It would only lead to dying with resentment.
Taking it one step at a time was nothing but self-consoling words for the mediocre.
“Alright! I’m two kilometers away from the intersection. Just follow them, don’t do anything rash, and keep me updated!”
Watching car after car being overtaken on the road, a thick murderous intent appeared in Flynn’s eyes.
“Rose, Scarlet, you must survive!”
“Today, no matter who tries to harm you, I will ensure they never recover!”
…
At this moment.
The setting sun’s afterglow scattered over the broad highway.
A black van with no plates was speeding towards Northview.
There were seven people in the van.
Apart from Rose and Scarlet, who were tied up, there were five kidnappers.
These five were burly and menacing, with eyes that glowered fiercely.
Not only did they have daggers, but one of the kidnappers also had a pistol tucked at his waist.
“Damn you! Damn you all! Let go of me and Ms. Sharp, let go!” Scarlet screamed loudly.
“Smack!”
A kidnapper slapped Scarlet hard on the face, drew a knife, and threatened viciously:
“Stop screaming! Scream again, and I’ll cut your throat!”
A bright red handprint immediately appeared on Scarlet’s face. Seeing the gleaming knife, she was terrified to the core, her face pale.
Rose gradually regained consciousness.
As her blurry vision cleared, her eyes fell on one of the kidnappers, and her expression changed drastically, she exclaimed in shock and anger:
“Vincent Valenti? You’re from the Eight Extremities School! Maximo sent you!”
This man was a guest of Kendal, a Semi-Grandmaster who had defected to Maximo during their last meeting.
It was clear that all this was orchestrated by Maximo.
Vincent smirked and nodded, “Yes, I was a bit harsh just now, sorry Ms. Sharp.”
“Maximo promised not to bother us anymore, and now he goes back on his word. How can he command respect?” Rose glared at Vincent, furious.
Vincent, however, smirked without humor, “Ms. Sharp might have misunderstood. Mr. Goff promised not to trouble the Sharp’s Group, not that he wouldn’t trouble you!”
Upon hearing this, Rose’s expression suddenly stunned, realizing that Maximo shamelessly played word games.
“Damn, these two women are really beautiful!”
The kidnapper holding Scarlet’s arm ogled their chests unabashedly and chuckled lewdly.
“Need you say it? Ms. Sharp is ranked the most beautiful woman in Niarak, and the one next to her is ranked third, curvaceous and stunning, of course, they are beautiful.”
“Ah! It’s just a pity, they are about to perish.”
Another kidnapper holding a gun grinned and said, “Fortunately, our orders are to enjoy first, then kill, otherwise it’d be a waste of these beauties.”
At this, all the kidnappers laughed, faces full of excitement.
“Not just that, Mr. Swanson also wants us to take nude photos of Rose, the netizens are in for a treat!”
“Ha ha… It’s better to enjoy together! We feast, the netizens get the leftovers!”
“In a while, I want to get on their chests, ah… imagine the scene, our descendants all over, thrilling…”
Hearing this, Rose and Scarlet shuddered, horror flooding their eyes.
Initially, they thought Maximo wanted the formula for the Ancient Formula Returning Heart Pill, but these kidnappers not only intended to assault them but also to take their lives by posting their photos online!
And they also mentioned “Mr. Swanson”-it must be Braiden!
Braiden was collaborating with Maximo to doom them!
Flynn was right, Braiden had taken an extreme path!
Cruel!
Shameless!
Despicable!
For a moment, Rose and Scarlet felt utterly devastated.
“Boss, there’s a car following us!”
Just then, the driver shouted.
Vincent glanced at the rearview mirror, narrowed his eyes, and said, “The woman who was with Rose earlier? Blow out her tires!”
“Yes!”
The kidnapper with the pistol immediately leaned half his body out of the van, aimed at Harriet’s car.
“Not good!”
Molly shouted, just as she was turning the steering wheel, the kidnapper pulled the trigger.
“Bang!”
After the loud noise, the bullet whistled out, flying straight towards Molly’s front tire.
“Bang!”
The sound of the tire bursting rang out, and Harriet’s car instantly lost control, heading straight for the guardrail!